5011. That she cried unto the men of her house. That this signifies falsities, is evident from the signification of a “cry,” as being falsity (see n. 2240); hence “to cry” is predicated of falsity. The “men of her house” in the genuine sense are the truths of good, but in the opposite sense they are the falsities of evil. That the things which Potiphar’s wife now tells to the men of the house, and afterward to her husband, are falsities, is evident from her very words. That natural truth, which is here the wife of Potiphar, after ultimate spiritual truth (which in its outmost appearance seems as if conjoined with it) has been torn away, cannot but speak falsities, or things contrary to the truth, may be seen above (n. 5008 at the end).